What is the best way to make the country's spoiled "little kings" healthy, responsible and disciplined? To Wan Guoying, the answer lies in a training regime like the one used at the West Point Military Academy in the United States.

In the past three years, Wan has trained 300 boys at her training center in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Her methods of punishment include whipping and making the boys eat Chinese goldthread, a bitter plant able to reduce inner heat.

Wan bars girls from her center. She said boys are the real hope of the country while girls will go nowhere other than family chores.

(Southern Weekly)